I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
BARBARA BUSHNancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!
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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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Whatever the era…one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
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George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.
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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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Show me a wife who doesn’t offer advice and I’ll show you one who doesn’t care very much.
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I think a lot of our problems are because people don’t listen to our children. It is not always easy. They’re not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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I’m not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don’t think I’m competitive, just nice.
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I’m taking a vow not to advise.
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I’m a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so’s George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don’t mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
BARBARA BUSH